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The not-quite-a-boom-arm charging cable management

Firn

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I was tired of rolling the dirty cable up every day so I figured I would fix that. Unfortunately parking does vary in the garage so a simple "curtain rod" style system was less than desired. Instead using Home Depot I hacked together a 14 foot, almost a boom arm, system instead.

It's 80% finished, ugly, dirty, and still in need of paint, but here it is. Sadly the pvc and pivots are not quite strong enough to prevent bowing, so instead of a fully articulated free standing arm you have a handle that you hook to pre-arrainged spots on the ceiling. It will hold it's own weight, it's just not as strong as you want. I still need to add a guide wire to the first segment too, just for some extra support.

I'm probably less than $100 into it, and there is a fair bit of extra bits laying around.

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Lessons learned and I would try a few things different in the future so I'll try and put up a video later.
 
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Pretty clever. I use a bungee cord 😂!
 
 





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